Show ong n of helpmeet helpmeet has had a curious his tory wh ch began with the biblical account of the creation when the lord god said it Is not good that the man should be atone I 1 will make him an help meet for him that is to say abit assistant but the two words hove become curiously bombin ed into a helpmeet and they are constantly used as one moreover the contusion Is increased by the cor of the words into help mate and macaulay writes of the waiting woman who was generally consider ed as the most suitable help mate for a parson |